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INSTITUTES OF METAPHYSIC - Page 13
by JAMES F. FERRIER - 1854
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 77

England - 1855 - 782 pages
...was kept of the gradual widening of its girtb, or of the growing circumference of its shade — till, the deciduous dialects of surrounding barbarians dying...ever over the whole civilised world the fruits of Orecian literature and art. ' " It is always very late in the day before the seminal principles of...
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Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing the Mind

James Frederick Ferrier - First philosophy - 1854 - 514 pages
...was kept of the gradual widening of its girth, or of the growing circumference of its shade — till, the deciduous dialects of surrounding barbarians dying...seminal principles of speech are detected and ex- illustration continued. plained. Indeed, the language which owed to them both birth and growth may...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 77

Scotland - 1855 - 824 pages
...was kept of the gradual widening of its girth, or of the growing circumference of its shade — till, the deciduous dialects of surrounding barbarians dying...heroic people, and dropping for ever over the whole civilized world the fruits of Grecian literature and art. "It is always very late in the day before...
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Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being

James Frederick Ferrier - First philosophy - 1856 - 610 pages
...was kept of the gradual widening of its girth, or of the growing circumference of its shade — till, the deciduous dialects of surrounding barbarians dying...§ 20. It is always very late in the day before the illustration seminal principles of speech are detected and excontinued. " * ' plained. Indeed, the...
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An Essay on the Origin of Language: Based on Modern Researches, and ...

Frederic William Farrar - Comparative linguistics - 1860 - 292 pages
...register was kept of the gradual widening of its girth, or of the growing circumference of its shade, till the deciduous dialects of surrounding barbarians dying...foliage, the poetry, the history, and the philosophy of an heroic people." t Thus the Greeks and Romans I displaced by their dominant idioms numerous languages...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 19

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1869 - 610 pages
...widening of its girth, or the growing cireum' ference of its shade ; till the deciduous ' dialects of the surrounding barbarians ' dying out, the unexpected...history, and the philosophy of a heroic " people." But, however curious and interesting such illustrations may be, and thoroughly as they demand the attention...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 51

Methodist Church - 1869 - 646 pages
...register was kept of the gradual widening of its girth, or of the growing circumference of its shade, till the deciduous dialects of surrounding barbarians dying out, the unexpected bole stands forth Sn all its magnitude, carrying aloft in its foliage the poetry, the history, and philosophy of a heroic...
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Families of Speech: Four Lectures Delivered Before the Royal Institution of ...

Frederic William Farrar - Language - 1870 - 274 pages
...register was kept of the gradual widening of its girth, or the growing circumference of its shade, till the unexpected bole stands forth in all its magnitude,...foliage the poetry, the history, and the philosophy of heroic peoples.' But although the labours of * It is remarkable that Dante, rising superior to the...
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The Logical Bases of Education

James Welton - Education - 1899 - 314 pages
...Indeed, in early stages of language there is no division into words, either in speech or in writing. "It is always very late in the day before the seminal principles of speech are detected and explained. Indeed, the language which owed to them both birth arid growth may have ceased to be a living...
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A Manual of Psychology

George Frederick Stout - Psychology - 1899 - 692 pages
...been gradually disengaged by reflective analysis from their specific embodiment. "It is," he says, " always very late in the day before the seminal principles of speech are detected and explained. Indeed, the language which owed to them both birth and growth may have ceased to be a living...
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